Play Tall Boot

Hunter has been making boots in Scotland since 1856, when it started as the North British Rubber Company. The brand produced well over a million pairs of trench boots in the First World War and supplied the forces again in the Second, long before anyone thought of a wellington as fashion.

The Original Wellington arrived in 1956 and has barely changed since: twenty-eight hand-cut parts, built on the same last, vulcanised for real protection against actual weather, not just drizzle. Two Royal Warrants came along the way, and so did Kate Moss at Glastonbury in 2005, the moment that turned a farmer's boot into a festival staple.